I HAVE a secret in my happy heart— I walk as though to music heard afar! And sunshine is about me as I go— Of God's great plan I feel myself a part! My secret, too, has made me very wise— I know how Mary felt when angels came To tell her of the glory to be hers— How glad her heart, though tears were in her eyes! I know her anguish, too, on Calvary— The sorrows of the mothers of the world Are also mine! And how they pay, in tears, The toll of all their joy is known to me! But ah, that joy is now a part of me! And I go singing ... singing on my way— The masonry of motherhood is mine For that sweet secret in the heart of me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELF-REJECTED by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER THE WISE WOMAN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865] by HERMAN MELVILLE A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI SHUT OUT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MANNERLY MARGERY, MILK AND ALE by JOHN SKELTON ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 14. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND - FROM THE COUNTRY by MARK AKENSIDE |